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SYLVIA ASHTON-WARNER'S DELICIOUS WAY
OF TEACHING BEGINNING READING

For people working with children beginning to read

This workshop helps teachers to focus on making reading meaningful and desirable to young children by helping them see the power of the written word.  Young children are very involved with solving major problems in their lives and understanding, and they need powerful tools to help them.  Sylvia Ashton-Warner invented one that helps and heals. 

There is videotape of children reading to me and getting new words. 

Workshop participants will learn some techniques for effective talking with a child to evoke the words that name the pictures in his or her heart, and what to do with the other children while the lesson is going on. 

They can prepare for the workshop by reading my chapter on this process in The Sun's Not Broken, A Cloud's Just in the Way: On Child-Centered Teaching, pages 66-76,
my book, Pay Attention to the Children; Lessons for Teachers and Parents from Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Katie Johnson's book, Doing Words,  or Sylvia Ashton-Warner's book, Teacher.

E-mail:  sydney@eceteacher.org, www.eceteacher.org • (C) Copyright Sydney Gurewitz Clemens, 2007